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In this book, we will give you tips on how to unclutter your very messy office to increase your productivity (or just give you a clear mind to actually get something finished for the day). We will also provide suggestions on how to create a program that you can stick to, so your office doesn't go back to the shambles it was before you got this book.

People often think that when you live in a small house, it's because you don't have the means to live in a larger home. In most cases this couldn't be further from the truth. The fact is that small house living typically equates to a much more fulfilling life. Through the process of downsizing your life in regards to material possessions, clutter, and the size of your dwelling, you come to understand a new ideal in which freedom is the name of the game.

Showing people the benefits of organization to life and health can be a good way to encourage them to be sensible or systematic in their life. However, to tell them what to do or look down on them is a definite no-no. Being organized is not a skill set that comes with your genes. You can learn organization, it is a trait that can be taught, caught and nurtured. As you set your mind towards the goal of being an organized person, and you constantly practice organization, you can develop the skill.

Even the most skilled homemaker wants to get things done better and faster right? In this book, you’ll find loads of helpful DIY household hacks to keep your home looking its best,while expending less energy to keep it in tip top shape. As a homemaker, I believe that good home maintenance shouldn’t just be a boring obligation, it can also be fun, so I’ve included plenty of DIY cleaning and organizing ideas that make cleaning and organizing fun!

Minimalist living is a concept that is being seen more and more. It has been around since the dawn of man, but it’s been getting a lot of notice now as people are looking to simplify their lives. Studies have shown that minimalism makes it easier to get rid of stress. It turns out that having too many tools and too much ‘stuff’ can make our lives more stressed and more complicated.

This book describes how to be your own general contractor when building your own home. In the process you will save the builder's fee and real estate costs, and I describe many other ways to save costs.

This audiobook will introduce you to the minimalist lifestyle and provide you with strategies that you can apply in your life. Not only will you learn how to simplify, organize, and declutter your physical and external world, but you will also learn various techniques to simplify, organize, and declutter the internal aspects of your life as well.

Joe repairs homes. With each job, he enters somebody's private world. Revealing a life. Or changing it. The life of a craftsman has its challenges, such as collecting an overdue bill from an irate psychopath - and its charms, such as the blonde in the hot tub. Joe has made every mistake and met every kind of homeowner - the good, the bad, the profoundly weird.

Most eco-friendly books start with terror-inducing lists of the carcinogenic chemicals you are liberally slathering all over every single surface in your house, painting most people as unwitting eco-villains, happily Lysol-ing their way straight to hell. Well, listeners can just relax and unpack the (plastic) bags - no guilt trips today! All You Need Is Less is about realistically adopting an eco-friendly lifestyle without either losing your mind from soul-destroying guilt or becoming a preachy know-it-all whom everyone loathes.

These days, it is very important that you do everything you can to save money, and to make sure that you have something to eat, in case calamities or unprecedented events occur. It is also important that you have some food that will see you through your everyday life. Canned or preserved food is essential in every household because it is easy to make and very delicious, too.

The Agile City engages the fundamental question: what to do about it? Journalist and urban analyst James S. Russell argues that we'll more quickly slow global warming - and blunt its effects - by retrofitting cities, suburbs, and towns. The Agile City shows that change undertaken at the building and community level can reach carbon-reduction goals rapidly. Adapting buildings (39 percent of greenhouse-gas emission) and communities (slashing the 33 percent of transportation related emissions) offers numerous other benefits that tax gimmicks and massive alternative-energy investments can't match.

The United States of America is facing a record number of home foreclosures. Behind the home foreclosure "statistics" are real homeowners, struggling to bail themselves out of their financial situations, unsure how to save their homes, with or without the cooperation of their bank mortgage company. While this is happening, millions more face the uncertainty of being two paychecks away from losing their homes...

Drawing on 25 years experience as a carpenter, Frank Freeley's tales entertain and illuminate. The characters and situations bring to light what goes on behind the scenes of residential construction projects.

There comes a time in everyone's life when you realize your life is too messy and you're simply too busy. Clutter has taken over your life! If you're living with anyone else, their clutter and hectic schedules affect your life as well.

Today, it is difficult to imagine a living room without a sofa. When the first sofas on record were delivered in 17th-century France, the result was a radical reinvention of interior space. Symptomatic of a new age of casualness and comfort, the sofa ushered in an era known as the golden age of conversation; as the first piece of furniture designed for two, it was also considered an invitation to seduction. With the sofa came many other changes in interior space we now take for granted: private bedrooms, bathrooms, and the original living rooms.

Flipping houses for profit is something anyone with the right amount of dedication and knowledge can do. For many professional real estate flippers, they got their education the expensive way, failure. In How to Flip Houses for Profit in Today's Economy, we eliminate the expensive lessons and give you insight on how to effectively flip houses for profit. Written by a professional real estate investor and flipper, How to Flip Houses for Profit in Today's Economy is different than the other real estate investment books out there.

Lemons and Lavender is an inspiring and instructive guide to living the handmade life by consuming less and creating more. Practical and profound, this handy how-to covers every area of life and offers easy-to-do tips, recipes, and advice for saving money and the planet. Learn how to ditch your lawn and raise organic vegetables, cook healthy meals for pennies, cure minor maladies from the kitchen cabinet, save big dollars with small repairs, and eco-clean your house with lemons and lavender. With this guide, families can live more joyfully and far more creatively, all on a dime.

When Derek and his partner Maggie decide to escape to the country, they don’t opt for the simple life. Instead they set about converting an old Cotswold stables in Stow-on-the-Wold into their dream home. Over the next two years, they wage guerrilla war on the Planning Office, are cursed by everything from collapsing walls to poison gas, run out of money, and meet some very strange characters - till in its final stages of construction, the place unaccountably floods.

Witold Rybczynski takes us on an extraordinary odyssey as he tells the story of designing and building his own house. His project began as a workshed but through a series of "happy accidents" the structure gradually evolved into a full-fledged house. In tracing this evolution, he touches on matters both theoretical and practical, writing on such diverse topics as the ritualistic origins of the elements of classical architecture and the connections between dress and habitation. He discusses feng-shui and considers the theories of such architects as Palladio, Le Corbusier, and Frank Lloyd Wright.

Save money with hands-on, smart household energy solutions!Want to make eco-friendly changes in your house that will save energy? This practical guide is packed with tips and projects for increasing your home's energy efficiency while reducing costs and cutting down on waste and pollution...